STOP TURKISH GOVERNMENT 'S BAN ON INTERNET SITES. INTERNET YASAGINA HAYIR!

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Turkish Government Turkiye Hukumeti

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Turkish government shut down by court order the internet connection to sites that are crucial and necessary for worldwide communication. Sites such as Youtube.com, videogoogle.com, wordpress.com, ateist.com, ateizm.com virb.com, ustream.tv, imeem.org, megupload.com geocities.com, tagged.com, richarddawkins.net and several others are no longer accessible to those living in Turkey and they remain banned. Please visit the sites below for further information on banned sites and protests in Turkey.
www.kampanya.org.tr/sansur
www.opennet.net
The law that allows for the blocking of domain names stands.  Blogger and blogspot.com domains were recently banned and unbanned in October 28th while courts await further evidence, in the mean time millions of bloggers continue to live with their blogs being blocked and unblocked. Turkish court that previously blocked Blogger requested "missing evidence" but made it clear that the ban could be reintroduced after the legal procedure is completed by the prosecutor.
The banned sites allow access to the free world of ideas and provide sources of information for all citizens. We demand that Turkish government stops unilateral internet and press control and repression. For a truly democratic Turkey we demand to have all internet connection sites operational. Turkey's NATO membership and EU ambitions seem paradoxical to the infringement on the freedom of press and speech of its citizens by banning sites like Blogger and YouTube. The ban is self defeating as the EU is making a blacklist of censoring countries and also is creating software for people in these countries to use to bypass the censorship (see: Global Online Freedom Act)  Thank you.

Turkiye de internet sitelerinin bloke olmasini protesto ediyoruz. Youtube, ateizm, geocities, tagged, wordpress, richarddawkins.net ve buna benzer yuzlerce sitenin yasak olusunu, dunya ile olan iliskimizin bu sekilde kisitlanmasini, fikir alisverisini yasaklayan zihniyeti kabul etmiyoruz.  Turk insaninin sivil haklarina saygi gostermenizi saygilarimizla rica ediyor, demokrasinin ilk kuralinin bireysel ozgurluk, fikir ozgurlugu, basin ve iletisimin serbestligi oldugunu da belirtmek istiyoruz. Tesekkur ediyoruz.
Sansure Sansur Kampanyasini destekliyoruz.Lutfen bu siteleri ziyaret ediniz:
www. kampanya.org.tr/sansur
www.opennet.net

We the undersigned,
We protest the ban on the internet sites. Sites such as blogger.com, Youtube.com, videogoogle.com, wordpress.com, ateist.com, virb.org, megaupload.com, ustream.tv, imeem.org, geocities.com, tagged.com, richarddawkinks.net and several others are not accessible to those living in Turkey. These sites are globally used by millions not only for entertainment purposes but also for genuinely serious information exchanges: postings in arts,educational,medical, political,social,legal and many other fields from blogs of individuals to blogs of institutions and small to large foundations, to political parties and all kinds of groups, to forums from all over the world make use of the sites. We are bewildered why the authorities would take such despotic steps and would narrow the country's vision instead of trying to broaden it. Repressing the intelligent, entrepreneurial, talented Turkish youth will not only stop the exposure to diversity and the eager young minds from learning but also prevent them from forming their own critical opinions. We as citizens of Turkey and citizens of the World ask the Turkish government to join the truly democratic Nations and to leave the League of tyrannical and despotic regimes by eradicating the notion that government can unilaterally control press and shut down internet sites without justification.We demand a free press and free exchange of ideas in Turkey!We demand for our youth to live in the world not apart from it! For a true democracy we demand all internet sites to be operational in Turkey!
Thank you.Please visit both sites for further information about bans on sites and protests in Turkey.www.kampanya.org.tr/sansur
www.opennet.net
BIZ ASAGIDA BU KAMPANYAYA KATILAN VE IMZALAYANLAR:
Turkiye de internet sitelerinin bloke olmasini protesto ediyoruz. Youtube, ateizm, geocities, tagged, wordpress, richarddawkins.net ve buna benzer yuzlerce sitenin yasak olusunu, dunya ile olan iliskimizin bu sekilde kisistlanmasini, fikir alisverisini yasaklayan zihniyeti kabul etmiyoruz. Turk insaninin sivil haklarina saygi gostermenizi saygilarimizla rica ediyor, demokrasinin ilk kuralinin bireysel ozgurluk, fikir ozgurlugu, basin ve iletisimin serbestligi oldugunu da belirtmek istiyoruz. Bu yasaklari kaldirin, Turkiyeyi 21.ci yuzyila ileriye donuk yasama hazirlayin. Tesekkur ediyoruz.

SANSURE SANSUR kampanyasini destekliyoruzwww.kampanya.org.tr/sansur
www.opennet.net

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# 124:

10:27 am PDT, May 19, Batu Oguz, Turkey
Every citizen of any country should be able to view any site on the net. It is crucial. You might get offended, I don't. If I don't want to visit a site, I won't, but it's not for you to choose what I get to view. This significantly cuts people off and discourages freedom of speech.

# 123:

10:06 pm PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Florida

# 122:

10:01 am PDT, Apr 4, Christopher White, Turkey

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7:12 am PDT, Mar 22, Vicky Protopapa, Greece

# 120:

1:23 pm PDT, Mar 12, Sibel Kaya, Turkey

# 119:

5:22 am PDT, Mar 10, Burak Sürer, Turkey
i dont understand why the government bans sites..Erdogan says he can access forbidden sites with anti-banners..if he does that,why his government bans them for us?

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4:57 am PST, Feb 10, Buisseret Françoise, Belgium

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3:10 pm PST, Feb 8, Le dreff Pascal, France

# 116:

4:58 pm PST, Feb 7, Diana Marcela Hernandez, Colombia

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2:29 am PST, Feb 6, Marianne Christensen, Denmark

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4:38 am PST, Feb 1, Cynthia Torrey, Virginia

# 113:

7:01 pm PST, Jan 29, Stephanie Rodriguez, New York
Please do limit your comment to a short line and no profanities and abusive remarks against the Turkish Government, all signers with such comments will be deleted. Thank you.

# 112:

6:34 pm PST, Jan 29, Desiree Salas, New York

# 111:

2:05 pm PST, Jan 29, Melinda Bashen, Virginia

# 110:

11:32 am PST, Jan 29, Cocqueret Emeline, Belgium

# 109:

11:34 pm PST, Jan 28, Onur Doğan, Turkey
Yakında google a da yasak gelir diye düşünmüyor değilim ... :) aman eşşeğin aklına karpuz kabuğu derler... bir şey söylemedim ben...

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6:07 am PST, Jan 25, Sertac Ozgur, Turkey

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11:12 am PST, Jan 24, Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania

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7:27 am PST, Jan 21, Sonia Trimboli, Italy

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5:40 am PST, Jan 21, GENIEYS A, France

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2:55 pm PST, Jan 20, KOUDOU ZIZA, France

# 103:

2:40 pm PST, Jan 19, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

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4:38 pm PST, Jan 18, Name not displayed, Florida

# 101:

1:59 am PST, Jan 17, Diane Beijer, Netherlands

# 100:

2:29 pm PST, Jan 13, S. O., Turkey
Only oppressive and undemocratic governments control their citizen's access to the press and information.. It is interesting to note that the ban is directed to stifle the exchange of any type of intellectual communication, that is the reason the blogs, ateist.com, richarddawkins.com and sites that are questioning existince of God or discussions on religions or forums on scientific thoughts, blogs on Wordpress are so threatening to this government which is after all an Islamic and an autocratic government. You can not play the "secularist democracy" game, and ban sites that threaten your Kuran based education and life style. And the Nationalists are making it easy for them as they like to ban sites that question Turkish nationalism or patriotism as well and find insults even if you mention Armenian genocide! Their anger and so called misplaced "patriotism" is not working. It is time to wake up! This government is as corrupt as any other that governed in the last twenty years, but unfortunately they are doing it more successfully and they are slyly doing it in the name of islam and they are stealing our future and our monies and sharing it with their crowd, but their vision is as narrow and as destructive on the long run for all young turkish people as any other turkish politician that governed Turkey in the 20th century... A house of cards, it will crumble too...Time for a new Ataturk. An uncorruptible, truly secular, scientific minded, humanist leader.. But where is he or she?

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3:59 pm PST, Jan 11, Paque Michèle, Belgium

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6:08 am PST, Jan 11, Christine LESIEUR, France

# 97:

9:35 am PST, Jan 9, Ange Barrett, United Kingdom

# 96:

6:37 am PST, Jan 5, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

# 95:

5:50 pm PST, Dec 30, Name not displayed, Ireland

# 94:

4:52 pm PST, Dec 30, Kaya ..., Turkey

# 93:

4:22 am PST, Dec 29, Asli Gedik, Germany

# 92:

12:18 am PST, Dec 29, Gillian Erer, United Kingdom

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10:58 am PST, Dec 28, NOEL Steph, France

# 90:

6:14 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Turkey

# 89:

5:39 am PST, Dec 28, Karen De Vries, Netherlands
I thought Turkey wanted to join the EU. This doesn't exactly help...

# 88:

4:18 am PST, Dec 28, Anne Griffin, Canada
This is undemocratic.

# 87:

9:04 am PST, Dec 27, Silky Wylder, Wisconsin

# 86:

7:19 am PST, Dec 27, Paola Ghidotti, Italy

# 85:

4:51 am PST, Dec 27, Yiðit Aydýnalp, Turkey

# 84:

3:01 am PST, Dec 27, Loredana Versaci, Italy

# 83:

4:24 pm PST, Dec 26, Sabine Nowack, Germany

# 82:

4:05 pm PST, Dec 26, Tina Alaca, Turkey
freedom of speech should never be banned

# 81:

2:47 pm PST, Dec 26, Laurence Naudet, France

# 80:

2:17 pm PST, Dec 26, Joelle Coudriou, France
Please leave the animal rights defenders do their job, they don't do anything against their government, they're just trying to save lives! Freedom is what makes a country appear as a modern one.

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2:15 pm PST, Dec 26, Bourguignon Bruce, France
responsible communication from animal rights french federation

# 78:

1:40 pm PST, Dec 26, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

# 77:

1:36 pm PST, Dec 26, Goddess Lozz, United Kingdom

# 76:

11:23 am PST, Dec 26, Sue Le Ray, United Kingdom
no to censorship

# 75:

11:12 am PST, Dec 26, Eloise Deschamps, United Kingdom

# 74:

7:01 am PST, Dec 26, S . Margiaou, Greece
Liberty is the ability to speak, see diffirent points of view and act on our ideal, believe and it includes free access to all Internet sites.

# 73:

2:46 pm PST, Dec 25, Name not displayed, California
I think the ban the sites are wrong. The sites help the people all over the world to know what's happening with cruelty of the animals. We need to speak in behalf of the dead and suffering animals. They need help from us unless you make better changes and set up new laws for your citizens to leave them alone and if they harm them or kill them, set up a new law to put them in jail and pay fines. This is the way to help the turkish dogs thru the Internets. It is time for you to make healthy changes for 2009. Thank you for understanding.

# 72:

1:40 pm PST, Dec 25, Okan Akkýn, Turkey

# 71:

1:01 pm PST, Dec 25, Greta Snijder, Netherlands

# 70:

12:21 pm PST, Dec 25, Sinem Ketenci, Canada
This is an outrage - this attack on freedom of speech is a denial of the most basic and enlightened of human rights - this is a step back into the Dark Ages!

# 69:

11:57 am PST, Dec 25, Maria Kantartzi, Greece

# 68:

11:13 am PST, Dec 25, Lale Alatli, Turkey
I am sorry that I am witnessing this situation here, in Turkey

# 67:

8:59 am PST, Dec 25, Mikey Lawlor, United Kingdom
This is a attrocious!!

# 66:

8:20 am PST, Dec 25, Neesan Sims, United Kingdom
Turkey it is almost 2009, A world of internet communication, Please do not keep your people in silence from the truth !

# 65:

12:39 pm PST, Dec 24, Anthony Braybrooke, Louisiana
Freedom of knowledge and religious expression is human right. For the sake of knowledge and education, I hope this is changed.

# 64:

12:12 pm PST, Dec 22, Melanie Driver, South Africa

# 63:

12:49 pm PST, Dec 21, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

# 62:

1:46 pm PST, Dec 20, Asha D, Canada

# 61:

8:57 pm PST, Dec 19, Alejandra Vega, Argentina

# 60:

8:18 pm PST, Dec 19, Monika V, France

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7:24 pm PST, Dec 19, Debbie Low, Florida

# 58:

7:19 pm PST, Dec 19, Lee Baron, New Jersey

# 57:

2:51 pm PST, Dec 19, Eureka Morrison, South Africa
Freedom to information and freedom of expression is a basic human right.

# 56:

12:37 pm PST, Dec 19, Veronica Lach, Romania

# 54:

7:57 am PST, Dec 19, Julie Zserdin, Michigan
this out rageous. Poeple need the freedom to be able to see what is going on the world. to shut down access to information is wrong and shows the goverment is afraid thier citizens will be made aware of things that the government is trying to hide.

# 53:

7:01 am PST, Dec 19, Anna Hickl, Germany

# 52:

6:32 am PST, Dec 19, Anne Thompson, United Kingdom

# 51:

3:58 am PST, Dec 19, Pam Fioretti, Australia
This is an outrage - this attack on freedom of speech is a denial of the most basic and enlightened of human rights - this is a step back into the Dark Ages!

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